Federal agents serving a federal search warrant entered Oakland, California’s Oaksterdam University with power saws and a sledgehammer in a joint raid Monday, April 2nd 2012 and cordoned off the state’s “first cannabis industry training school” with yellow caution tape.

Agents were from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigation division.

Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, confirmed that the federal agencies were conducting a joint investigation, but could not give any further details as to why they were there, only noting that the warrant and documents relating to the investigation were under seal, and stating “We’re not able to comment as far as the nature of this ongoing investigation.”Continue Reading